So many people know what police officers do, but what do Probation Officers do? In this book, you’ll be able to explain to your children what most supervising Probation Officers do and how they positively impact the communities they serve. Written from the perspective of a child of a Probation Officer, this book will help kids and young adults of all ages gain a perspective on the value of a Probation Officer and how their ultimate goal is to help redeem people.

Fed up with teenage life in the suburbs, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries, from the warm Pacific to the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer's tale, this is a chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave and eternal truth in the great salty blue.

Farren Bryant Jr. is a young African American at war on several fronts. Emotionally drained, spiritually dehydrated, and emotionally battered. He embarks on a journey that leads him from school yard fights, to the darkest street corners, to empty jail cells. Plagued by anger and burdened with the weight of losing friends to internal strife within the gang he joined. He sets about pursuing an early childhood peace and religious love lost to the streets and a vast prison system that's meant to callous the heart. His fight is to remain all that he is as he struggles with faith, hope, love and adversity while facing elements that can break the human spirit.

Fifteen psychologists, twelve secondary schools, four expulsions, four rehabs, two house-arrests and innumerable arguments... the cast and plot line for a season's worth of Law and Order? No. This was the real-life drama of Heather Stone's adolescence. Now in college, Heather, the once rebellious teen, has sat down with her father to pen an insider's guide for parents and teens alike. Charles and Heather don't offer Cleaver family ideals or promise Brady Bunch thirty-minute solutions. They, instead, share the realities of their 6-year nightmare, in the hopes of fostering hope for the millions of families trying to survive the years from thirteen to eighteen. Replete with faith, honesty, and practicality, it offers readers nine practical lessons and provides a compass for even the worst tempests of teen rebellion.

Lately, troubled teens have been dominating the headlines. But there are other stories that deserve the spotlight--stories about the many teenagers who have dedicated themselves to important, socially useful volunteer work and who will lead their generation toward a more hopeful tomorrow. The fourth in Conari Press' "Call to Action" series, Teens with the Courage to Give profiles thirty amazing young people throughout the United States and Canada who overcame great personal odds to reach out and help others while healing themselves in the process. Each has founded or is linked to a nonprofit organization that is also profiled in the book, to encourage other teens to embrace volunteerism. In these inspiring pages, to name just a few of these heroic teenagers, you'll meet an amputee who runs in the Paralympics and spurs others on with his inner resolve; the son of a cancer patient who created support groups around the country for kids with sick parents; a girl who helped her mother and younger sister as they died of aids and who is now an aids awareness and prevention volunteer; and one of the students from the Littleton, Colorado, shooting who has gone on to create a teen drop-in center. Through their courageous first-person stories, these teens show that they are part of the solution to what ails today's society. Includes an extensive resource guide of volunteer opportunities and a classroom/group discussion guide.

Shattered A child brutalized, a family destroyed, a community wounded... but the story doesn't end there. “Stop being a victim. There's total healing- physical, emotional, and most importantly spiritual, for you in Jesus Christ.”

WHITE HOLLER CRIME is a play on the term coined in the late 1930's by Edwin Sutherland to describe professional crime. Today the Federal Government has itself become criminal in its enforcement of justice while taxpayers can only holler in protest, and so the term: White Holler Crime. Follow our investigative reporter as he wends his way through the bowels of spending madness, incompetence and hypocrisy that is the Federal Justice System. Welcome to Club Fed!

The story of Ray Pettit is the story of America. a country of decent and generous people, a country with a heritage and system of government based on liberty and the rights of individuals, a country where opportunity has no bounds. Encouraged by his mill-worker parents, who were lacking in formal education but not in intelligence, character, and love for their children, he used his natural ability in mathematics and high-level academic achievement as a springboard to great accomplishments in engineering, some of which contributed to the development of today's modem cellphone technology .Mill-Village Boy begins with the story of a barefoot boy in overalls, in the small town of Canton, Georgia, during the depression years of the 1930s. Unconditionally loved by his parents, Ray Pettit went from Class Valedictorian to graduation from Georgia Tech with a degree in Electrical Engineering. This was followed by Masters and Doctor of Philosophy degrees, and outstanding achievements in industry and academia. Mill-Village Boy has elements of intrigue and danger, love and adventure, comedy and sadness, loyalty and betrayal. . . a fascinating description of an exciting and rewarding life!

Wounded, but not broken is a young girl's true story of abuse and neglect, at the hands of her mother, father and other family members. After removal from her parents she was placed in foster care only to begin a long equally destructive journey through a troubled foster care system. Wounded, but not broken she turned this period of adversity into a life triumph, taking control of her destiny and reversing her circumstances. This book is the story of strength, courage, and resiliency. This is a must read for Judges, probation officers, social workers and anyone working in the human service Field. Anyone that has ever had to endure abuse, addictions or any type of setback will be empowered to challenge their future once they have read this book.